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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sandra Bonola, 56, who moved from Connecticut to Charleston, South Carolina, in 2021, then to Beaufort, South Carolina, in 2023, before deciding the South wasn’t right for her. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I am a native New Englander, born and raised in Connecticut. In late 2021, I started thinking seriously about moving. I’m an empty nester, and thanks to my remote job, I can work from anywhere in the country.I was drawn to the South because people talked about it as if it were the promised land.…

At Kalshi, most employees report directly to both founders of the largest prediction market in the US in what CEO Tarek Mansour described as a deliberately “unusual” management structure.Speaking on a recent episode of Sequoia Capital’s “Long Strange Trip,” Mansour said he and fellow cofounder Luana Lopes Lara have roughly 150 direct reports with little traditional hierarchy in between.”There’s some functions that like we sort of let them do like what they do,” Mansour said, “but pretty much most of the company reports to between the two of us.”Mansour and Lara founded Kalshi in 2018 after they met as students…

At 36, I had everything I ever wanted.I was a senior communications leader at one of the world’s biggest entertainment companies, earning a title and salary that I had worked my entire career to get.Not only did I have my dream job, but also an amazing group of friends and family, a healthy relationship, and a passport that was getting stamped almost monthly.I felt like I was finally creating the life and family I always wished for. Until, suddenly, everything changed.A breakup and a layoff forced me to reevaluate my life I was excited to live with my mom, but…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bakari Akil, 37, a private equity investor from New York. Akil grew up with no international travel experience and, three years ago, set out to visit 30 different countries each month. He finished his list, but is still traveling around the world. The following has been edited for length and clarity.People I knew were traveling around and out of the country, and doing all this really cool stuff, and I was just like, “How are people pulling this off?” I just couldn’t figure out how people were living these cool lives.While…

Michael Siluk | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesLosing weight with GLP-1 drugs is only half the battle. Keeping it off long term has proved even harder.Factors such as side effects, high out-of-pocket costs, injection fatigue and stigma around obesity treatment drive troves of patients – some studies estimate roughly half or more – to stop GLP-1s within a year and risk regaining the weight they lost. Years from now, Vivani Medical believes a tiny GLP-1 implant placed under the skin could help address that problem. The biotech company is in the early stages of developing an experimental implant of…

I live in the Hamptons year-round, and I understand why people think summer here looks glamorous from the outside.There is the much-anticipated season for those who come to visit: the rush of crowds, people jumping from one boutique fitness class to the next, the packed restaurants and bars, the private parties, and the highly coveted events all around.But for me, as a single mom of two and the founder and owner of East End Taste, an event planning and production company, summer out east can be extraordinarily challenging. But I grew up in The Hamptons and want to raise my…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Fareed Kotb. It has been edited for length and clarity.After photographing two World Cups in Russia and Qatar, I wanted my third to be different.I somehow wanted to connect to the first World Cup in 1930, nearly 100 years ago, and decided to do this; I would take photographs with a camera made in 1930.I bought a 1930s camera in CairoIn Cairo, we have a market for vintage cameras. I narrowed it down to four cameras, settling on one I found in a big box — a Zeiss Ikon Ideal 250/11.The…

Despite his constant travel and packed schedule, Blackstone’s Jon Gray tries to respond to every email before he goes to bed, even if it’s just to say he’ll look at it more carefully later.He advised summer interns that adopting a similar habit will probably serve them well.”Responsiveness is a habit that you can learn that wins you a lot of positive affirmation,” Gray, the firm’s president and chief operating officer, said Wednesday.”If you respond to people in a timely way, it shows you value them,” he said.Responsiveness was just one part of Gray’s broader playbook for building a career at…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Olivia Love, 37, a wedding content creator from Glasgow. She won £10,000 a month on the UK’s National Lottery Set for Life game. Business Insider has verified her winnings and business expenditure. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.I used to work on the kiosk at a supermarket that sold lottery tickets. Occasionally, I’d buy a few myself, but I never won anything significant.One evening in May 2025, I bought six lottery tickets. I went to bed, and when I woke up, I found out we’d won a heck…

Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo, offered up some great career tips during an interview released July 1 as part of the Hoover Institution’s “Only In America” documentary series.Here are the six best pieces of advice she gave:1. Seek opportunityNooyi emigrated from India to the US in 1978 to attend the Yale School of Management. Studying and living in the US was the springboard she needed to secure jobs at Boston Consulting Group, Motorola, and ultimately PepsiCo.”An immigrant could come in with nothing in her pocket and become the CEO of an iconic American red, white, and blue company,”…